Louis
How many real pets are named Louis, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Louis as a pet name?
■ dogs ■ cats ■ other animals
In the public pet records we track, 417 pets are named Louis: 393 dogs, 22 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 rat. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #181 among dog names and #474 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Louis
Dogs
- French Bulldog: 27
- Yorkshire Terrier: 19
- Maltese: 15
- Labrador Retriever: 15
- Chihuahua: 11
Cats
Rabbits
- Rabbit Sh: 1
Rats
- Rat: 1
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Louis
- New York City: 251licensed
- Toronto: 61licensed
- Seattle: 28licensed
- Austin shelter: 24shelter
- Zurich: 20licensed
- Burnside (SA): 15licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 7licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 6shelter
- Adelaide: 3licensed
- Prospect (SA): 1licensed
- Richmond, VA: 1licensed
Louis as a human name
This is the meaning of Louis as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from French. Root meaning: “loud; famous”.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Louis
Dog names about as popular as Louis
Louis FAQ
How many pets are named Louis?
In the public pet records we track, 417 pets are named Louis: 393 dogs, 22 cats, 1 rabbit, 1 rat. Where sex was recorded, 2% are female and 98% male. It ranks #181 among dog names and #474 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Louis?
Among dogs named Louis in these records, the most common breed is French Bulldog.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Licensed Dog and Cat Names, City of Toronto (Open Government Licence – Toronto); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Dog Registrations, City of Adelaide (CC BY 3.0 AU); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); City of Prospect Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); Pet Licenses, City of Richmond; Animal Shelter Intake and Outcome, County of Sonoma; Austin Animal Center Outcomes (public domain). License records count registered pets; shelter records count animals that passed through a shelter (some names are given by staff). Pets that appear in several years of one dataset are counted once. Names are counted as written, so spelling variants are separate.